Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
CATO THE YOUNGERSince it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
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Since it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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Speak briefly and to the point.
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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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